 class wikitable - date event source - c -2400 cy olman gods originally native to another prime material plane first show themselves to the olman people tsb - c -1700 cy the troglodyte empire within the amedio jungle falls tsb - c -1600 cy the empire of the d'kana rises in the amedio tsb - the ur-flannae kingdom of sulm flourishes in the area later known as the bright desert lgg wgr3 - c -1400 cy kyuss is exiled from the ancient empire of sulm he and his followers flee south to the amedio jungle founding the city of kuluth-mar on the shores of the body of water later known as lake matreyus soon after kyuss is given a gift by a lich of a race inhabiting the jungles the spell weavers this gift a small vermin starts kyuss on his path of devastation; the first worm of kyuss within oerth dun#130 tsb - as a catalyst for his ascension kyuss constructs the spire of long shadows a citadel serving as his base of power within kuluth-mar with a great monolith at its peak he begins gathering items of holy might and unholy corruption in order to curry favor with nerull dun#130 - kyuss binds the souls of his entire sect of followers into the great monolith at the spire of long shadows using this power to fuel his apotheosis he is successful but is bound within the monolith himself upon achieving godhood dun#130 - keraptis declares himself protector of the city of tostenhca and initially is a benevolent ruler though he slowly grows corrupt with age he spends his time seeking immortality extending his lifespan far beyond that of any normal mortal in the process rwpm - the kingdom of sulm begins a slow decline into evil wgr3 - long allies of sulm the native desert centaurs slowly begin ending their alliance as the kingdom descends into cruelty wgr3 - an ur-flannae sorcerer named shattados slays his chief rival for the throne of the kingdom of sulm a wizard by the name of drokkas shattados becomes king but drokkas manages to live on his pure hatred for shattados and desire for rulership allowing him to become a lich wgr3 - sulm sulm's slide into decadence ends when shattados the last king of sulm begins delving into forbidden arcane magics to aid in the kingdom kingdom's war with the local desert nomads his appeal to that most evil of gods tharizdun is answered and he is given a boon from that deity; the scorpion crown upon donning this crown shattados is transformed into a monstrous scorpion and his people into the race of manscorpions today plaguing the bright desert the kingdom of sulm is ended within a day wgr3 - the collapse of sulm leaves but a single human citizen untouched the benevolent sorceress shemeya she manages to avoid the curse transporting herself and her tower into a bubble of magical energy with the side effect of slowing time to a crawl within she begins to bring her tower from place to place searching for a way to reverse the curse wgr3 - c -1200 cy the d'kana empire vanishes possibly withdrawing purposefully to make way for the divined arrival of the olman tsb - according to legend the northern adepts of blackmoor a cabal of ur-flan sorcerers create the numerous standing stones and mounds throughout the future-archbarony in an attempt at holding back the encroaching black ice lgg - c -1000 cy the olman first arrive in the amedio jungle from hepmonaland soon building seven great cities in that area tsb - keraptis finally goes too far in his demands on the people of tostenhca for keeping his protection laying a levy on one-third of all newborn children in the city the people of tostenhca drive out keraptis and his personal bodyguard of gnomes and they flee to the cities of the south and west though keraptis finds no sanction as his reputation has already spread rwpm - keraptis begins travels across the flanaess in his quest for true immortality as he travels he gains three of the four items of power he receives whelm from his gnomish enclave of bodyguards wave from the mythical cyclopes and blackrazor through future-communing with the last entities of a dying multiverse rwpm - -805 cy - 1 ol the seven olman city-states within the amedio declare themselves the one true olman nation tsb - c -700 cy keraptis learns of white plume mountain and the druids of the elder age who guard the secrets of immortality within keraptis arrives at the volcano and fights a great battle with the sole remaining druidic protector of the secrets of the mountain gaining victory after a long conflict rwpm - keraptis finds frostrazor the fourth item of power within the druid druid's fane in white plume mountain along with a mysterious statuette he uses to lay a curse on the distant city of tostenhca rwpm - -594 cy lyzandred born in the baklunish empire coltm - lyzandred leaves to apprentice with a hedge wizard and begins traveling the world occasionally returning to his home village to show what he has learned coltm - the entirety of lyzandred lyzandred's village is abducted by a man with a rod of beguiling and sacrificed to pyremius lyzandred slays the kidnapper and takes the rod embarking from this event on a quest to remove powerful magical items from those undeserving of them coltm - -555 cy lyzandred discovers a portal to a demiplane closely aligned with oerth uses it to store the items he has taken from others coltm - in a moment of clarity lyzandred sees that his quest is slowly becoming an obsession and wishing to avoid becoming the sort of man he has been fighting against for years seals himself within his demiplane working from outside minions entirely from this point forward coltm - wishing to continue his quest without the effects of the demiplane wreaking further havoc on his mind lyzandred begins researching the process necessary to become a lich without succumbing to evil coltm - the lands north of the cold marshes are inhabited by flan tribes dwelling in stockadelike hill-forts near the numerous hot springs in the area their tales speak to the fact that the black ice of blackmoor had already claimed the northern valleys though the specifics of the civilization once in the north are lost rumor of evil throughout those lands was old even this long ago lgg - -535 cy lyzandred achieves the rare goal of rising as a lich while still managing to retain his humanity coltm - c -500 cy a series of destructive civil wars and conflicts begin to tear apart the olman empire tsb - c -430 cy the twin cataclysms occur bringing an end to the baklunish-suloise wars the suel mages of power destroy the baklunish empire through the invoked devastation and in retaliation surviving baklunish wizard-clerics sequestered at tovag baragu call down the rain of colorless fire upon the suel imperium woga lgg - c -425 cy an argument among priests in the isolated olman city of tamoachan quickly escalates to an all-out magical battle though it lasts only one day the city is decimated by the conflict tsb - c -415 cy the former city of tamoachan is completely reclaimed by the jungle by this point the natural regrowth accelerated by the nature of the magics used in its inadvertent destruction tsb - c -400 cy by this point the only city to escape the wrath of the olman civil wars and other conflicts is the southernmost xamaclan tsb - c -350 cy suel survivors of the rain of colorless fire first begin to arrive in the amedio with the arrival of one house at the southern shore of matreyus lake they soon encounter the ruins of the olman city of elatalhuihle they claim the ruins as their own erecting a new city on that spot tsb - cousins of the ice barbarians calling themselves the zeai or sea barbarians colonize the tusking strand and brink islands to the north of blackmoor they soon begin a number of raids against the local flan tribes soon learning of the city of the gods and egg of coot lgg - -217 cy a series of small aerdi states along the shores of the solnor ocean realizing that separately they would be unable to fight against the suel that were flooding the flanaess unite under a single banner they take as their name the name of their people becoming the kingdom of aerdy and elect the scion of house garasteth lord mikar as their first grand prince a position equal to the modern king rel astra is declared the capital of this new nation lgg - aerdy proceeds to conquer a number of its rivals in the area first taking over the flan flan's slowly-crumbling kingdom of ahlissa then sweeping north to invade those oeridian tribes that had settled lands behind them lgg - c -170 cy the suel city built on the spot of ruined elatalhuihle falls for unknown reasons magical curses are still prevalent where both cities once stood tsb - -110 cy the battle of a fortnight fortnight's length under the rule of grand prince almor ii the house rax manages to defeat their nyrondese rivals the last major opposition to their rule in the eastern flanaess lgg woga - 1 cy grand prince nasran of house cranden makes the declaration of universal peace for the great kingdom of aerdy he is named the first overking of the great kingdom and the date of his reinauguration marks the first day of the common year calendar woga lgg - c 90 cy one of keraptis keraptis's projects devoted to transcending mortality a device empowered by the four items of power allows the mage to leave the prime and enter a distant shadowy realm that he believed held the key to become truly immortal rwpm - 100 cy by this point the great kingdom has grown too large to effectively govern entirely from rauxes having grown as far west as the fals gap and the quaglands overking manshen the first rax overking divides the nation up into four viceroyalties each awarded to a different house and each nearly totally independent answering only to the malachite throne in the east it was divided into north province managed from zelradton by house cranden and south province managed from eastfair by house naelax around the nyr dyv are placed the viceroyalty of nyrond governed from rel mord by a junior branch of house rax and the viceroyalty of ferrond including the northern reaches now perrenland and various lands around the vesve forest ruled from dyvers by house darmen lgg - spring 108 cy massing in knurl aerdi forces prepare to march northeast fighting against the increasingly-strong barbarian raids lgg - fall 108 cy by this point the aerdi have been successful in uprooting most fruztii encampments and the foundations of a massive stronghold are begun at spinecastle lgg - winter 108 cy the fruztii are defeated at johnsport in response they send out a call and thousands of their kinsmen begin to march south along the timberway striking at the construction underway at spinecastle the defenders were quickly outflanked and surrounded and caldni vir a heironean cavalier from edgefield was given orders from the herzog to pull back in retreat ignoring his orders the knight proceeded to enter the battle from the north descending unexpectedly from higher ground and routed the barbarians decisively in a battle later known as the battle of the stumblefield overking manshen recognized vir vir's bravery by naming him the first marquis of the bone march so named for the high price paid for taking it house vir proceeds to keep rulership for over four and a half centuries following the founding of the bone march lgg - the lich-lord ranial the great creates the crown of blackmoor in an attempt at wielding the land land's oerthmagic against the forces of aerdi he ultimately fails and blackmoor is declared an archbarony of the kingdom administered by the viceroyalty of ferrond lgg - 198 cy lyzandred summons a meteor to strike oerth near the fifth star cairn in the abbor-alz this meteor disrupted an attempted reproduction of the twin cataclysms on a lesser scale in the fifth star cairn displacing it from oerth and taking with it one of the pieces to a powerful suel weapon of war the researchers within the remaining four cairns abandon their work to deal with the strife stirring up in the great kingdom; strife caused partially by lyzandred lyzandred's further enchantments coltm - following the cairn cairn's disappearance lyzandred dispatches a minion to retrieve items from the other four star cairns and leave notes leading to his lair within the abbor-alz hoping to deal with the suel wizards personally upon their return coltm - the meteor which crashed in the abbor-alz is interpreted by selvor the younger an astrologer within the great kingdom as a sign of wealth strife and a living death but when his predictions fail to come to fruition within the kingdom he is dismissed from service and made a laughingstock ga - 213 cy overking jiranen of house rax dies and his son malev uninterested in the office decides to auction it off to the highest bidder his cousin zelcor managed to meet his price to the surprise of many his taking of the throne is considered the beginning of the period known by most historians as the age of great sorrow lgg - during the coronation of zelcor an ominous sign arose; a complete eclipse of the noontime sun the royal astrologers proclaimed it as a great portent and confirmation of selvor the younger younger's much-mocked prediction 15 years prior in response overking zelcor proceeded to disband the astrologers order and banished the lot of them to rel astra for trying to recreate the temporary hysteria that had gripped the land at that same prior prediction lgg - following overking zelcor proceeded a succession of more and more neglectful decadent or dimwitted rulers to the malachite throne the empire began a slow decline as provinces begin seceding and many noble and good aerdi were expatriated by these secessions lgg - 254 cy in response to the slow decline of the great kingdom the viceroyalty of ferrond secedes from the nation becoming the kingdom of furyondy and declaring thrommel i as its first ruler lgg - c 300 cy theodain eriason is born in the western verges of the dreadwood within the sheldomar valley lgj #0 - 302 cy the land later known as bissel is invaded and subsumed into keoland and the city of thornward is founded lgg - 305 cy a party of adventurers correctly decipher the clues to lyzandred lyzandred's lair left within the remaining four star cairns this party arrives at the lair but all save one are dismissed by lyzandred he sees great potential in the wizard he asked to remain behind; zagig yragerne he remains with the lich for a short time learning unfortunately the demiplane plants the seed of insanity within his mind coltm - early 300s cy according to rumor a new lich-lord begins to gain power in the archbarony of blackmoor lgg - 324 cy johrase a debauched scion of the rax dynasty formed the kingdom of johrase a near-parody of the great kingdom within the bandit kingdoms lgg - 329 cy the walled city of rookroast is founded by an oeridian robber-baron within the bandit kingdoms - 350s cy keoish forces begin a series of invasions into ket and veluna from thornward a series of conflicts later known as the short war following a series of embarrassing defeats by keoland their invasions into ket cease bissel is declared the littlemark with thornward as its capital for use as a base from which to check ketite expansion south and east of the bramblewood gap lgg - 356 cy the decline in aerdy grows to such a point that even while ruled by a cousin of overking portillan nyrond still declares its independence aerdy is forced to allow the secession with little opposition due to sudden raids attempted in north province by barbarians from the thillonrian peninsula drawing away forces from the west lgg - coldeven 8 421 cy zagig fails to show up for a meeting of the oligarchy and is soon discovered to have completely vanished in truth he had recently been contacted by lyzandred and in a rare moment of lucidity saw the effects his growing insanity was having on his city he leaves greyhawk to spare it from his trials and begins roaming the planes not returning for decades; to all appearances he has completely vanished from the face of oerth and is not seen again by mortal eyes save four men; keoghtom heward murlynd and kelanen coltm tab - lyzandred withdraws further from oerth still abashed from the damage his last protege very nearly wreaked over the planet coltm - 437 cy overking nalif of house rax is assassinated by the house naelax initiating the period known as the turmoil between crowns herzog ivid of north province lays claim to the throne leading to herzog galssonan of south province to break with rauxes it is only the intercession of houses garasteth and darmen that bring about a final compromise and end the series of civil wars rampaging over the kingdom ivid i of naelax in the end manages to take the malachite throne bringing an era of evil to the great kingdom through this house house's association with various demonic forces this connection leads the rulership of aerdy to gain the nickname fiend-seeing throne lgg - herzog galssonan is deposed and replaced with a prince from house naelax in an effort at bringing the southern insurgents back in line lgg - 438 cy the combined forces of furyondy and veluna conquer bissel ending keoish influence in western veluna the furyondian government keeps bissel bissel's office of margrave though replacing the ruling family with nobles sympathetic to affairs in the east lgg - 446 cy the herzog of south province grants an audience to ambassadors from irongate wishing to air grievances about recent events however the meeting was a ruse on the herzog herzog's part who imprisons tortures and executes the ambassadors for overking ivid ivid's amusement lgg - 447 cy in response to the murder of irongate irongate's ambassadors by the herzog of south province the whole of south aerdy breaks from rauxes forming the iron league and allying with nyrond lgg - 470 cy theodain eriason eriason's father dies leading theodain to abandon the path of the warrior and take up magecraft lgj #0 - 477 cy margrave rollo of bissel and his personal guard are successful in repelling a small army of jebli from attacking the visiting king hugh iii of furyondy in gratitude bissel is declared a march palatine and is officially made independent lgg - 479 cy a minor despot in the howling hills leaves his estate to his son iuz within a few years iuz will have managed to conquer a number of lands around this estate creating a slowly growing empire in his name in fact iuz is actually the offspring of the necromancer iggwilv and the demon prince grazz't but his status as a cambion will be known to few lgg - 480s-490s cy the adventuring party known as the brotherhood of the tome adventures across the flanaess sponsored in secret by the mage zagig yragerne this group consists of the paladin-mage murlynd the bard-mage heward the prince of swords kelanen and the cleric keoghtom they undergo a series of quests on zagig zagig's behalf and aid through their various actions in his apotheosis undergoing their own in the process though to a lesser degree - amongst their quests was the recovery of four powerful intelligent weapons from keraptis within white plume mountain; blackrazor frostrazor wave and whelm their capture of these implements traps keraptis in his shadowy realm preventing his return to the prime material plane rwpm - another of their quests is the channeling of kyuss from his monolith into zagig zagig's containment - 499 cy thornward undergoes a year-log siege from ket lgg - c 500 cy alhamazad the wise is born in the port city of kofeh lgj #0 - 501 cy wastri is captured by zagig and the brotherhood of the tome and imprisoned in a specially-constructed cell in the basement of castle greyhawk tsb - 505 cy zagig with the help of the tome is successful in capturing and imprisoning iuz lgg - with the aid of the brotherhood of the tome zagig uses 9 imprisoned demi- and quasi-powers to begin a ritual of ascension to godhood this ritual will be successful on all bringing zagig to the state of demigod and each member of the tome to the state of quasi-deity - 509 cy mordenkainen is born possibly in the great kingdom lgj #0 - 513 cy the horned society splits from the nation of iuz taking with it a number of lands belonging to that nation including the lands once part of the far western bandit kingdoms lgg - 514 cy jemrek longsight a dwarven sage impressed with the sight of the meteor which fell centuries ago tracks its path and calculates the general location where it was likely to have fallen the eastern wing of the abbor-alz between the bright desert and the nesser river he predicts a great cache of minerals to be found there left by the comet; certainly iron and possibly gold and mithral as well ga - groups from the iron league south province the principality of ulek almor nyrond the duchy of urnst the wild coast greyhawk dyvers and even the pomarj all converge in the location predicted by jemrek searching for the starstone and the minerals to be found with it tales of murder treachery and massacre begin flooding out of this area as the various bands come into conflict the pomarjis humanoids are slaughtered by a temporary alliance of dwarves from the iron league and ulek nyrond and urnst are unexpectedly turned away by inhabitants of the celadon forest the herzog herzog's troops disappear within the bright desert and all involved are hassled by the natives of the abbor-alz as well as people from the sea princes attracted by the various supply ships ga - 519 cy the house of highforge one of the more prominent dwarven clans of the iron league discovers the starstone within the abbor-alz and sets up a secret trail to transport the precious metals out a port city was established on the coast of the abbor-alz where it touches the bright desert; this soon becomes the port city of zarak ga - iron platinum gold mithral and adamantite all begin to pour out across the flanaess from the secret mine named azak-zil by the miners the dwarven phrase for pureheart ga - one of the residents of white plume mountain a descendant of keraptis keraptis's gnomish enclave of bodyguards discovers the k-imprints an early abandoned attempt at immortality he memorizes one of these spell matrices thus installing a copy of the wizard wizard's consciousness within his own mind and believing himself to be keraptis the false keraptis begins an attempt at recovering the four items of power rwpm - 524 cy the flow of metals from azak-zil ceases as the miners are overcome by the undead curse originating from the enchantment at the heart of the starstone multiple efforts at investigating the fate of the miners by the leaders of clan highforge fail and the city of zarak is abandoned ga - 528 cy drawmij is born assumedly in keoland and possibly in gradsul lgj #0 - 530 cy the sea princes first make landfall on the amedio peninsula they soon begin taking slaves of the local amedians and olmani sending them back to the mainland to be sold or using them for cheap labor within the jungles some local tribes object but others exploit the new industry selling prisoners of their enemies to the sea princes in exchange for useful items tsb - 533 cy bigby is born in oldridge lgj #0 - 534 cy warnes is born in the city of leukish lgj #0 - 538 cy nystul is born in tenh lgj #0 - otto is born in chathold lgj #0 - 548 cy jallarzi sallavarian is born the daughter of a minor noble family in the duchy of urnst lgj #0 - 550s cy raids from the rakers of the barrens into the bone march begin to increase in number lgg - sunsebb 551 cy mordenkainen and his then-apprentice bigby meet in an inn on the wild coast deciding that a group must be formed to deal with the rise in organizations that would impose their own agenda on the flanaess from the decadent court of aerdy to the crusading priests of st cuthbert this group is initially composed of mordenkainen and bigby the warrior robilar the cleric riggby and his assistant yrag the mage tenser and his ally serten and the woodsman otis this party comes to be known as the citadel of eight taking its name from its headquarters in mordenkainen mordenkainen's obsidian citadel located somewhere in the yatil mountains lgj #0 - over the years as members leave the citadel of eight for various personal reasons its ranks shift to include prince melf brightflame robilar robilar's half-orc henchman quij felnorith robilar robilar's brother terik and even the quasi-deity murlynd in disguise as an enigmatic wizard by the name of merlund lgj #0 - 553 cy alhamazad makes a foray to the pinnacles of azor'alq; a trip that resulted in a broken leg for the mage after this incident he retires to the city of zeif where he becomes an unofficial advisor to the sultanate lgj #0 - 556 cy ivid v takes the malachite throne lgg - c 560 cy warnes is sent south by his family to the wizardholme of urnst a well-regarded magical institution established by suel mages centuries ago he quickly progresses becoming a skilled generalist wizard before the age of 30 he is appointed junior assistant to the chief sorcerous councilor of the duke the seer of urnst the two soon come to odds however possibly due to rumors of the seer seer's investigation into darker magics and warnes leaves on his own to travel the flanaess lgj #0 - 560s cy jallarzi studies magic under the seer of urnst and the future warnes starcoat eventually her travels take her to greyhawk where under tenser tenser's tutelage she becomes the youngest member ever inducted into the society of magi lgj #0 - 560 cy the number of raids against the bone march suffer a tremendous upturn lgg - 561 cy the increasing number of raids into the bone march grow into a full-scale invasion on the part of the rakers lgg - 563 cy orcish forces manage to successfully capture spinecastle attacking along secret pathways that left its defenders little warning according to rumor the information about these pathways was given to the orcs by herzog grenell of north province himself given his ambition in wishing to expand his territory and the long-standing hatred between houses naelax and vir lgg - 569 cy the citadel of eight explores maure castle in the duchy of urnst during this exploration mordenkainen discovers the tome of the black heart a prophetic work that speaks of tharizdun tharizdun's eventual release and achievement of his goal of ultimate destruction wg5 lgj #0 - the battle of emridy meadows occurs between the horde of elemental evil and the forces of furyondy veluna and verbobonc led by prince thrommel of furyondy the forces of good are successful in routing the horde but serten is killed during this conflict his death along with the conflict going unaided by the other members of the citadel of eight busy with their own concerns as they were ends up driving a rift in that adventuring group bringing it to an eventual end lgj #0 lgg - c 570 cy mordenkainen first meets alhamazad the wise in an incident that results in the departure of alhamazad alhamazad's traitorous apprentice kermin mind-bender lgj #0 - coldeven 570 cy with the dissolution of the citadel of eight mordenkainen decides to take a more active yet subtler role in directing events seeking to avoid the eventual release of tharizdun at all costs to this end his first act kept secret even from his allies is to gift lord robilar with a sword secretly enchanted with powerful dispelling magics prior to his exploring of castle greyhawk it is his intent to free iuz and use his presence to provide a split in the forces of evil drawing strength away from the cult of tharizdun lgj #0 - iuz is inadvertently freed by lord robilar and his party bigby and tenser arrive moments later to help robilar robilar's party in fighting off iuz but he manages to escape to the abyss just before he is slain by a crushing hand spell tab - 570 cy rudd merikka and wastri escape over the months following the escape of iuz due to weakening of the enchantments on their cells following the battle that ensued upon his escape lgg drg#265 - reaping 570 cy iuz having recovered from his near-defeat returns to the lands that once bore his name unhappy with how things had been handled in his absence he slaughters a good number of his followers using their remains to form a new road of skulls stretching from the borders of his domain to his capital at dorakaa lgg - late 570 cy mordenkainen begins looking for members for his new band the circle of eight lgj #0 - fireseek 571 cy mordenkainen mordenkainen's eight magi are gathered; among their number are bigby otto rary nystul drawmij leomund and bucknard through their adventures and the adventures of those sponsored by them they slowly create one of the most vast networks of informants the flanaess has ever seen lgj #0 - 571 cy the first thorough exploration of the tomb of horrors acererak the devourer devourer's tomb is completed s1 - blackrazor wave and whelm are retrieved from a false keraptis inhabiting the true mage mage's former dungeon within white plume mountain s2 - the soul gem is retrieved from the ghost tower of inverness by a party sponsored by the duke and returned to the duchy of urnst c2 - 573 cy the scarlet brotherhood is first reported lgg - 573 cy prince thrommel of furyondy vanishes lgg - 574 cy tenser though still somewhat bitter over the dissolution of the citadel of eight seeks membership in the circle of eight following the departure of one of its founding members to explore other planes of existence beyond oerth his membership is approved lgj #0 - 575 cy warnes and a company of allies defeat the plots of a mage known only as the weird of gnatmarsh the leader of a cult who had been slaughtering the human and demihuman inhabitants of the area in the name of wastri going as far as the celadon in her strikes she is finally acted against by the party after her takeover of the islands at the mouth of the nesser river goes unchallenged by the local authorities in a massive magical duel warnes manages to sink the weird weird's tower into the gnatmarsh in a massive display of astral energies energies which pull warnes in himself he eventually reappears in possession of the item which he has since taken as part of his name the starcoat lgj #0 - late 570s cy a party of adventurers including warnes starcoat journey into the strange demiplane of zagyg zagyg's known as the isle of the ape and retrieve the crook of rao from iggwilv iggwilv's grasp lgj #0 wg6 - 576 cy leomund retires from the circle of eight and is replaced by otiluke as president of greyhawk greyhawk's society of magi otiluke brings with him a seat on that city city's oligarchy allowing the group to begin its drive to influence the policies of temporal leaders throughout the marklands lgj #0 - the lost passage of the suloise is discovered and investigated among those to first explore its depths is the mage theodain eriason lgj #0 wogg - warnes starcoat is appointed chief sorcerous councilor to duke karll of urnst filling the gap left by the seer of urnst who had been expelled from the court a few years prior and since had mysteriously vanished lgj #0 - 577 cy zeech a renegade lord of the shield lands breaks with that nation forming the principality of redhand on the northern coast of the nyr dyv lgg - spring 578 cy the fellands a portion of the bandit kingdoms are captured by the forces of tenh lgg - 579 cy bucknard mysteriously vanishes lgj #0 - an attempted resurgence of the cult of elemental evil is put down by a group of adventurers lgg rt1-4 - aerdy declares a state of war on the golden league ; nyrond almor and the iron league lgg - 580 cy the slaver network spanning the wild coast and the pomarj is destroyed a1-4 - an attempted insurrection of necromancers in bissel possibly led by the disgraced evil wizard-lord evard is successfully repelled as a result of this new policies are enacted leading to harsh suppression of fringe groups and zealous punishment of treason and sedition lgg - intruders from the bone march attempt to steal the seal of marner an object blessed by suel gods symbolizing the northern alliance this theft is foiled however before the raiding party can even return to spinecastle lgg - late 580 cy aerdy declares an end to hostilities between them and nyrond the war having accomplished nothing on either side lgg - early 581 cy jallarzi sallavarian is invited to join the circle of eight and begins a six-month trial membership lgj #0 - 581 cy the falcon falcon's plans are ruined by a group of adventurers wga1 wga2 wga3 - the great kingdom is stricken with an epidemic known as the red plague lgg - the fellands are removed from tenha possession following a marriage between the ruling family of that state and the grosskopf clans bringing it back into the bandit kingdoms lgg - late 581 cy jallarzi jallarzi's six-month trial membership finishes just as the circle of eight heads off to investigate the hills south of verbobonc looking into rumors of the hand and eye of vecna being located in the burial cairn of a tyrant from years hence they are slain by this tyrant still alive after a fashion and having been taken over entirely by vecna save mordenkainen who elected to remain behind in greyhawk just in case a hastily assembled group of apprentices allies and confidants heads out to prevent vecna vecna's attempted apotheosis aided by the unlikely ally of iuz who would have much to lose should vecna have achieved godhood though vecna is successful he is cast into a planar gate by iuz at tovag baragu surfacing within the demiplane of dread kas is soon drawn in by the mists himself wga4 lgj #0 lgg - 582 cy iuz masquerading as the newly-returned god vatun unites the barbarian tribes of the thillonrian peninsula using them in the greyhawk wars to his benefit wgs1 wgs2 - mordenkainen revives the circle of eight through clones their remains having been entirely destroyed preventing more traditional methods of resurrection their recovery takes many months preventing the circle from responding to the events occurring in the north and forcing them into a reactive stance as the greyhawk wars begin to unfold lgj #0 lgg - mordenkainen bigby and otto aid in the battle of critwall bridge against iuz iuz's forces lgj #0 - drawmij helps to organize the flood of refugees from the lost lands to fastnesses in the good hills lgj #0 - the barbarian tribes of the north under the leadership of vatun actually iuz in disguise overwhelm the hold of stonefist whose forces ally with the barbarians after iuz ensorcells the master of the hold sevvord redbeard the combined troops smash through the griff mountains overwhelming tenh despite the attempted aid of nystul lgg - iuz iuz's raids continue with the quick conquering of the horned society and the shield lands lgg - rary retreats to his tower in lopolla citing pressing personal needs lgj #0 - 583 cy aerdy remusters its armies wishing to pay its foes back for centuries of impudence in the war that follows almor is utterly destroyed nyrond is invaded and sunndi is conquered the iron league with the aid of bigby and otto manages to retain its independence from aerdy lgg - in the chaos that follows medegia is despoiled and rel astra is attacked by the great kingdom kingdom's own armies lgg - in order to ensure loyalty among his men overking ivid v has his generals and nobles assassinated and reanimated as intelligent undead he in turn is assassinated but is returned brought to a state of unlife by the church of hextor this reanimation has caused him to become a true monster who takes the new name of ivid the undying lgg - nearly the entirety of the bandit kingdoms either allies with or is invaded and captured by iuz iuz's forces one of the few exceptions is the grand theocracy of dimre which manages to repel a number of invasion attempts ending in a nonaggression pact being signed between the two to avoid further embarrassment on iuz iuz's part lgg - 584 cy turrosh mak a half-orc native of the pomarj manages to unite the nonhuman tribes of that nation and leads them on a series of conquests ravaging a number of cities along the wild coast lgg - iuz iuz's forces invade and occupy northern furyondy capturing an appreciable amount of land from that nation lgg - decade-old paranoia regarding the scarlet brotherhood comes true as advisers in courts across the flanaess reveal themselves as brotherhood agents the lordship of the isles idee onnwal and the hold of the sea princes all fall under brotherhood control whether from treachery or invasion lgg - with the scarlet brotherhood now holding the lands taken by the sea princes in the amedio over 50 years ago their first act is to take the slave-trading holders as slaves themselves few survive the wrath of their former merchandise the scarlet brotherhood proceeds to free all amedian slaves and offer them positions within their ranks an offer taken by many such offers are not made to the olmani as the scarlet brotherhood considers them of inferior stock as with all non-suel rather the olmani are continued to be kept as slaves some taken by father marshenref now known as the father of thralls for experimentation following in the footsteps of the old imperium he crossbreeds some with a local lemur creating the rullhow slave race tsb - rary and robilar begin plotting against the circle of eight tab - north province under the rule of herzog grenell of house rax declares its independence from the great kingdom pulling itself out of the greyhawk wars lgg - brewfest 584 cy a horrible massacre occurs at steelborne meadows within the bandit kingdoms celebrating an end to the wars and planning the next year year's summer raiding season over ten thousand bandit men from abbarra freehold the midlands warfields and wormhall are attacked as they slept by a mad cleric of iuz almost half manage to escape most badly wounded fleeing to places of refuge in greenkeep tangles or the riftcanyon lgg - goodmonth 584 cy ketite cavalry encouraged in secret by iuz iuz's influence attack bissel bissel's watchtowers along the fals river at the northern end of the bramblewood gap an attempt is made to repel the invasion but little can be done with most of the mercenaries normally making up the border companies away fighting the pomarj and iuz lgg - harvester 584 cy the day of great signing an event intended to mark the end of the greyhawk wars four members of the circle of eight were to be present to observe the signing of the treaty of greyhawk between many of the warring nations hopefully bringing an end to hostilities instead rary betrays the circle of eight slaying otiluke and tenser and wounding bigby greatly before escaping to his tower in lopolla and transporting it to the bright desert meanwhile robilar and his troops distributed throughout the flanaess destroy all of tenser tenser's otiluke otiluke's and bigby bigby's secreted cloning facilities only one cloning facility of tenser tenser's manages to escape the destruction hidden as it was on the surface of luna; otiluke otiluke's and bigby bigby's are entirely destroyed tab lgj #0 wgr3 rto8 - resurrection attempts are made for both tenser and otiluke; unfortunately they both fail - thornward is captured by ket and bissel officially surrenders although the westerners had hoped to use margrave walgar as a puppet to ease the transition following the ceding of his lands he commits ritual suicide thus graf imran tendulkar is placed in control of bissel taking a soft hand and slowly trying to ease the once-independent nation into its new status as a ketite tributary lgg - veluna and the gran march begin trying to invade bissel recognizing its strategic importance though managing to drive the invading ketites in the neck of the fals river pass and the northern lorridges further advancements were halted by ketite horsemen and the remnants of the border companies now being funded by western interests lgg - 585 cy nearly half of the principality of ulek is captured by turrosh mak mak's humanoid forces appeals by prince corond of ulek to queen yolande of celene are ignored and celene closes its borders to all even its most trusted allies not desiring elf blood to fall in a human war wgq1 lgg - the sole remaining clone of tenser is recovered from the clutches of iggwilv and tuerny on luna luna's surface though he declines to rejoin the circle of eight citing fundamental disagreements with mordenkainen mordenkainen's philosophies warnes starcoat theodain eriason and alhamazad the wise are inducted into the circle to replace the gaps left by the betrayal of rary and deaths of tenser and otiluke lgj #0 rto8 - fall 585 cy king archbold iii of nyrond is nearly assassinated by his youngest son sewarndt though fighting erupted within the capital archbold archbold's eldest son lynwerd comes out victorious lgg - fireseek 586 cy prince lynwerd officially takes the nyrondese throne lgg - coldeven 586 cy canon hazen of veluna employs the crook of rao a powerful artifact of that god in a special ceremony known as the flight of fiends nearly every demon throughout the flanaess is banished back to their home plane wreaking havoc on the armies of iuz and ivid lgg - king belvor iii of furyondy declares the great northern crusade an effort at reclaiming the land lost to iuz over the course of the greyhawk wars further he declares furyondy in a state of eternal war on the land of iuz lgg - ivid v is announced to no longer hold the position of overking though whether he had actually died is unknown rauxes soon collapses into conflict as various nobles vie for the throne but rauxes is soon enveloped in a strange eldritch field destroying the city and causing odd magical effects for miles around the former capital lgg - 586 cy herzog grenell of the north kingdom declares himself overking of northern aerdy a title not used outside his own realm lgg - onnwal revolts against the brotherhood reducing their holdings in that country to merely the former capital scant lgg - 587 cy king lynwerd of nyrond incorporates much of the now-decimated almor into his realm lgg - xavener i refounds his province of ahlissa as the united kingdom of ahlissa declaring himself overking of this new kingdom lgg - ahlissa wrests control of idee from the scarlet brotherhood lgg - beygraf zoltan of ket is assassinated the resulting change in ket ket's government leads to a new policy regarding bissel as most troops are withdrawn from that land to deal with chaos in lopolla negotiations begin with veluna the gran march and the remnants of the bissel government lgg - alain iv the son and heir of archbaron lexnol of ratik leads a raid into bone march composed mainly of expatriates of that nation unfortunately the raid fails horribly as the unusally-organized humanoids laid a trap for the force in the hills north of spinecastle few survivors made it back and those that did reported horrific sights of men torn from their horses and eaten alive in front of the trapped raiders following this attempt infighting among the humanoid tribes ceases and raids into ratik resume lgg - 588 cy iuz iuz's hold on the master of stonefist ends and it reasserts its independence a many-sided war begins in tenh between the mutually-hostile forces of iuz stonefist the pale and tenha expatriates lgg - late 588 cy all land taken by iuz from furyondy is restored by this point lgg - 589 cy sunndi the largest surviving member of the iron league declares itself a kingdom lgg - the hold of the sea princes collapses into a bloody civil war ruining much of the brotherhood brotherhood's control in that region this collapse results in the brotherhood withdrawing from most of the amedio worrying that they may have spread themselves too thin lgg tsb - negotiations in bissel finally end with the end result being the controversial thornward division thornward is declared a neutral city held and governed in common by bissel ket veluna and the grand march all possessions north of the bramblewood gap are left in ketite custody while all lands south are remanded to bissel lgg - chief strongbow an influential leader among the centaurs of the bright desert is found dead in his quarters one of the stronger proponents of neutrality in the conflict between the desert nomads and lord robilar robilar's troops his death leads to the centaurs taking a position of opposition to rary and his forces lgg - 590 cy overking xavener begins directing his kinsmen under assistance by the priesthood of zilchus to form a new path for the windmarch an ancient trade route that once ran from chathold downriver to nulbish and pontylver running back upriver to eastfair traveling upon ancient aerdi-built magical roads known as dirawein this route though surviving most of the worst of the ivids collapsed during the latter part of the greyhawk wars as it became too unsafe to travel upon the overking hopes that the reestablishment of this route will aid in holding the empire together; the increase in external trade is merely a fringe benefit to this in his view lgg - bissel declares the farming and trading town of pellak as its new capital the invigorated knights of the watch their ranks having swollen in reaction to ket ket's long occupation of bissel keep watch over the castle from the nearby castle oversight lgg - a full-scale assault from the bone march launched over the blemu hills into knurl fails lgg - late 590 cy a company of lord robilar robilar's best paynim and nomad guards vanish while investigating an abandoned necropolis in response rary dispatches robilar robilar's personal guard to investigate; an act that so enraged lord robilar that he abandoned his post not returning for one week during his absence lord robilar slays an old blue dragon that had been considering an alliance with rary lgg - 591 cy the first new windmarch occurs beginning in both rel deven and hexpools in coldeven merchants from both cities migrate to kalstrand for growfest then on to nulbish pardue sarndt torrich and jalpa reaching carnifand by brewfest from there travel continues to orred where the merchants proceed to head home in two groups one going downriver and the other traveling overland the dirawein are used for much of this travel lgg - keraptis keraptis's newborn form is recovered from the shadowy realm he long ago entered and he is entrusted to a family within the city of greyhawk whelm and frostrazor are destroyed in the recovery and much of the dungeon complex below white plume mountain is destroyed rwpm 